Pictures of the Week: June 22, 2012

An Indian shouts for water as a shanty town is engulfed in flames in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 22, 2012. A fire swept through a slum in the Indian capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale.

Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and shooting guard Dwyane Wade react in the final moments during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. The Heat won 121-106 to become the 2012 NBA Champions.

Pictures of the Week is a Denver Post Plog that gathers the strongest photojournalism from around the world.

An Indian shouts for water as a shanty town is engulfed in flames in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 22, 2012. A fire swept through a slum in the Indian capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale. No one was reported injured or killed, fire department chief A.K. Sharma said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) #

Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and shooting guard Dwyane Wade react in the final moments during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. The Heat won 121-106 to become the 2012 NBA Champions.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) #

Aymara indigenous men attend a new years' ritual at the ruins from the ancient civilization of Tiwanaku, on the highlands in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, Thursday, June 21, 2012. The Aymara celebrate the year 5,520 as well as the southern hemisphere's winter solstice, marking the start of a new agricultural cycle. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) #

An indigenous woman participates in a protest at a building known as the "Old Indian Museum," located near the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio 20, Thursday June 21, 2012. Indigenous people who have built homes at the building will be relocated due to works on the stadium and the surrounding area as part of Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #

The small town of Brookston, Minn., northwest of Cloquet, feels the heat of the rising St. Louis River Thursday morning, June 21, 2012. The floodwaters that swamped Duluth are rushing south and causing problems in Carlton and Pine counties. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Brian Peterson) #

Indigenous prepare to enter a subway train as they commute to the People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in Defense of the Commons, a parallel event during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio 20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. The Earth summit runs through June 22. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #

Fire officials evacuate employees after the headquarters of the Maharashtra state government caught fire in Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 21, 2012. Hundreds of employees were evacuated Thursday from a seven-story government building as more than two dozen fire engines battled a major fire that raged for more than three hours in India's financial and entertainment capital. (AP Photo) #

A Palestinian man kisses the body of Ghaleb Ermilat, 21, killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral at the main Mosque in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Israeli aircraft fired missiles Wednesday at Gaza militants involved in a deadly infiltration from Egypt earlier in the week, killing one and severely wounding the other, the military claimed. It was Israel's first official linking of the ambush to Gaza militants. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba) #

A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays as a head priest, unseen, displays a relic, believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad at the Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Monday, June 18, 2012. Devotees thronged the Hazratbal shrine during Muslim festival of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

A Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar (R), who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cries near his family in a Bangladeshi Coast guard station in Teknaf on June 19, 2012, before being sent back to Myanmar. Bangladesh is coming under increasing international pressure to open its border to Rohingya's fleeing the violence, but has so far refused to do so. AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMANMUNIR #

Water rages in the St.Louis River as it flows through Jay Cooke State Park, washing out major sections of Hwy. 210 and ripping out the swinging bridge in the park Thursday, June 21 2012 just south of Duluth, Minn. The floodwaters that swamped Duluth are rushing south and causing problems in Carlton and Pine counties. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune,Brian Peterson) #

Bangladeshi fishermen fix their boat in Teknaf on June 17, 2012. The government has relaxed its temporary ban on fishing and travel on the in Naf river on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border but operations of the Teknaf land port remains suspended. People of the Rohingya community, mostly Muslims, tried to enter Bangladesh following the past weeks violent sectarian clashes with the Rakhaines, who are mostly Buddhists. AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMANMUNIR #

A car sits in a giant sinkhole in Duluth, Minn. Wednesday, June 20, 2011. Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck northeastern Minnesota, inundating the city of Duluth, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Brian Peterson) #

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf, rear left, waits for his sentence hearing to begin in the Cascade County Courthouse, Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in Great Falls, Mont. Leaf could spend 15 months locked down in Montana, first in a secure drug treatment facility and then in a pre-release living center as part of a judge's sentence following Leaf's guilty plea for breaking into a house and illegally possessing painkillers. District Judge Kenneth Neill sentenced Leaf on Tuesday to seven years with the Department of Corrections, with two years suspended if he abides by the conditions. (AP Photo/Great Falls Tribune, Rion Sanders) #

Nick McCrory, left, and David Boudia dive in the men's10-meter platform synchro final at the U.S. Olympic diving trials on Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Federal Way, Wash. The pair won the event. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) #

A resident breaks down after her shanty was gutted during a fire in New Delhi on June 22, 2012. Around 100 dwellings were gutted in a fire at a slum cluster and in an adjoining scrapyard in the Indian capital June 22. No casualties have been reported thus far, according to local media reports. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANAMANAN VATSYAYANA #

A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays at the Hazratbal shrine following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to heaven, in Srinagar, India, Friday, June 22, 2012. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

An Indian resident walks towards downed electrical lines after a fire in a shanty town in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 22, 2012. The fire swept through the slum in the Indian capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale. No one was reported injured or killed, fire department chief A.K. Sharma said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) #

A Pakistani child who was injured in an explosion in a Sunni shrine, receives treatment at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, June 21, 2012. A Pakistani police officer said that two children were killed by the explosion at the shrine as dozens of people gathered there.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #

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